[Almagest]

Hi. I'm trying to find a pointer in Final Fantasy VII located in the BATTLE.X file, and elongate the string by 1. I changed the word "Peerless" to "Invincible", but the game points to the "n" instead of the "I" (because that's where the string of the word "Peerless" starts), so it appears as "nvincible".

The string starts at the offset 00340596 (NOTE: I removed the first 8 bytes, so the file is decompressed). I tried to calculate it following the same example in Madhacker's tutorial (for NES games), so I guess it should be like this: 96 05 (correct me if I'm wrong). This should be the Pointer Value (I guess), but then I tried to change it to the new Pointer Value, but nothing happened when I tested the game. Should I include the 34 too? I suck when it comes to find/change pointers.

[Gemini]

There are no pointers for those strings, they are fixed length. Or at least, they are in the Japanese versions. If they were changed for western releases, they are more than likely hard coded into the code (i.e. lui register X>>16 : ori/addiu register, X&0xFFFF), or plain 32 bit RAM pointers.

[Almagest]

Oh noooo! What do I do now?!

[Gemini]

In the International build all strings are 12 byte long, so as long as you keep the new string under that limit it will work by simply replacing "Peerless" entirely and using padding to store the rest of it.

[Almagest]

I don't have the International version. :/

[Gemini]

If they kept the same code as a base (which I'm kinda sure they did, some things are different in International compared to the Japanese original), it should be pretty much the same. Many structures inside SCENE.BIN reflect entirely the western code framework to allow US and European translations to fit, with most fixed length strings using double the room they used to have in the first iteration of the engine.